Princess Syndrome - Chapter 46
Chapter 46: Fear
Su Lingyue rolled her eyes at Ji Zhiyi's back. The driver drove the car to the door, and the doorman opened the door. Su Lingyue was about to sit in the passenger seat when Ji Zhiyi said, "Sit in the back."
She wouldn't even give her a pie to eat.
And, she was still ordering her around.
Although Su Lingyue really wanted to pretend that she was drunk and hadn't heard, her body was very honest, and she had already sat down next to Ji Zhiyi.
The driver slowly drove the car out of the hotel. The car window tint was very dark, and the street lights couldn't shine through. Su Lingyue felt dizzy because of the swaying of the car. Her head was leaning on the back of the seat, nodding slightly.
Ji Zhiyi turned her head to look at her, and asked: "Are you going to sleep?"
Su Lingyue was prone to becoming drowsy when she was slightly drunk, it was an old habit. Actually, her alcohol tolerance today was far from the point where she would become slightly drunk, but she had drunk too quickly, so she had become sleepy. She said: "A little."
Ji Zhiyi pursed her lips: "Want to lie down for a bit?"
The back row was quite large. She and Ji Zhiyi were sitting on opposite sides. If she were to lie down, she would have to go over to Ji Zhiyi’s side. So, Su Lingyue had been leaning against the seat and nodding slightly. Now that she heard Ji Zhiyi say this, she was silent for a few seconds, then her body tilted, and she lay down on the back seat.
Her eyes were slightly closed.
It was so comfortable.
This kind of feeling of being so tired that your eyelids were heavy, the comfort of closing her eyes spread from the inside of her body. Her body relaxed contentedly. Ji Zhiyi was sitting by the car door. In order to give Su Lingyue more space, she raised one of her legs, placing it on the knee of the other. She leaned on the back of the seat. In the darkness, when she looked down, she could only see Su Lingyue's hair.
Su Lingyue’s head moved forward slightly, brushing against her leg.
She was wearing suit pants, the material was smooth, but she always felt like Su Lingyue’s hair had gone through the smooth fabric, and was sticking to the edge of her thigh, gently rubbing it.
In the darkness, Ji Zhiyi turned her head to look out the window.
A fire was building up in her chest, and her body was very tense. The alcohol was hitting her at this time, and her mouth was dry. While waiting for the traffic light, she took a bottle of water from the card slot, and just held it in her palm, without drinking.
The cold bottle was stained with warmth by her palm.
Ji Zhiyi felt that the time at this moment was so long.
It was so long that she had looked at the car window countless times. It was pitch black, and she couldn't see anything. She had deliberately avoided looking at Su Lingyue, but when she turned her head, her peripheral vision still caught a glimpse of her.
Su Lingyue was lying on her back. Her eyes were closed, and her hands were on her chest. Her sleeping position was very well behaved. A few strands of hair were blown onto her face by the air conditioning. She looked a little impatient, and when she brushed it back, it was blown back again. Ji Zhiyi reached out her hand, and brushed her hair behind her ear.
Su Lingyue had her eyes closed, and said in a light and clear voice: "Thanks."
She was shocked.
Her heart was racing in the darkness.
Without the disturbance of her hair, the corners of Su Lingyue's lips were slightly raised, and her expression was joyful. Ji Zhiyi stared at her thin lips.
She bit her lip subconsciously.
"President Ji, we've arrived." The driver's voice came from the front. Ji Zhiyi's hands and feet were numb, and her lips were faintly hurting. She didn't know how hard she had been biting just now. She pursed her lips, and called, "Assistant Su, we're here, get out of the car."
Su Lingyue hadn't really fallen asleep either.
It was just that this position was really comfortable, she didn’t want to get up, and she didn't want to open her eyes. In her daze, it seemed like she had gone back to her childhood. The happiest time she had was probably when she was little. At that time, her mother would take her to all kinds of amusement parks, watch the sunrise abroad, and go to resorts. Once, they spontaneously bought a custom RV, and that car was still at the old house.
In the past, her father didn't come home often. She and her mother would either fly around, or they would be at the old house. There, she had all the happiest memories of her childhood.
So after her mother's death, she had been living at the old house.
Later, her father had said that he could transfer the ownership of the old house to her as long as she agreed to marry Zhou Shiyu.
She had agreed.
And then she was betrayed.
Su Lingyue opened her eyes slowly. The lights inside the car were on. Ji Zhiyi was waiting for her outside the car. Su Lingyue picked up her bag and got out of the car. Her heel was unsteady when she landed, and her body staggered forward. Her hands wanted to grab the car door, and Ji Zhiyi reached out her hand in time. Su Lingyue held the door with one hand, and held Ji Zhiyi’s arm with the other.
Ji Zhiyi asked: "Are you drunk?"
The driver also hurried over: "Assistant Su, do you want me to help you upstairs?"
Su Lingyue steadied herself, kicked her heels, and said: "I'm okay."
Ji Zhiyi said to the driver: "You can go home now."
The driver agreed and drove away. Ji Zhiyi asked Su Lingyue: "Do you want me to support you?"
After Su Lingyue got out of the car, and felt the warm wind, she sobered up a lot. But when she looked at Ji Zhiyi's outstretched hand, the words ‘no, thank you’ were a bit hard to say. She said, a bit unnaturally, "Thanks."
It was the same words as when they were in the car.
But when she lowered her head, her ears were red.
Her hair was covering them, so she couldn't see anything. Ji Zhiyi tilted her head, and Su Lingyue was walking forward calmly, very close to her. She was afraid that Su Lingyue would fall, so she tried her best to support half of her body.
Su Lingyue was walking very slowly.
Under the tree shade that she usually disliked, she wasn't hurrying to go home, but instead, she was walking very slowly, slow enough that the scent of Ji Zhiyi's perfume was lingering in her nose.
Clearly she had also drunk a lot of wine, but why wasn't she smelling wine?
Su Lingyue was a little curious. She turned her head to look at Ji Zhiyi, and then moved closer to Ji Zhiyi and sniffed.
Ji Zhiyi found her actions strange: "What are you doing?"
Su Lingyue said: "There’s a strange smell on you."
(╯▽╰ ) It smelled so good.
It was even stronger than the perfume she had used at noon.
Was it mixed with alcohol?
Or, was it mixed with her body odor?
Or was it the scent that had settled from the perfume?
Su Lingyue was too curious. She moved closer to Ji Zhiyi, wanting to investigate. Ji Zhiyi heard that she had a strange smell and her face slightly changed. She lowered her head and smelled her arm.
There was no smell at all.
Was it strange?
Had she picked it up when she had been on the phone?
The smell of smoke?
Strange. It couldn't be a good smell, right?
Was it a bad smell?
Ji Zhiyi wanted to ask, but she was afraid of getting an even more embarrassing answer. Her lips straightened, and the agitation in her heart was about to break through. The elevator made a 'ding' sound, and they arrived.
She quickly entered the elevator.
Su Lingyue was dragged in by her.
Neither of them spoke. When they got home, the first thing that Ji Zhiyi did was to go straight to her room. Su Lingyue, seeing her urgent expression, was curious. She couldn't help herself and followed her to her door.
Ji Zhiyi turned her head, and saw a head poking out the door, and a cat sitting there.
Her hand holding her pajamas stopped moving.
She asked: "What are you doing?"
Su Lingyue touched her hair: "You're going to take a shower?"
Ji Zhiyi lifted up her pajamas.
Seeing that Su Lingyue still hadn't left, she forced herself to ask: "Do you want to help me?"
Su Lingyue turned her head and left.
Ji Zhiyi breathed a sigh of relief, then put her arm to her nose and smelled it, but there was still no smell. She pursed her lips, and brought her pajamas into the bathroom. Su Lingyue was waiting outside. She didn't even know what she was waiting for. She just felt like she was very secure at the moment.
The cat was running around her. Seeing that she was ignoring it, it purposely jumped on her leg, turned its head to look at Su Lingyue, and miaowed sweetly.
Su Lingyue ignored it.
It moved closer.
Su Lingyue suddenly miaowed at it.
Her tone was very coquettish. The cat was stunned for a few seconds, it stared at her, as if she was a monster. Su Lingyue laughed, and then miaowed at it again. The little wild cat’s fur puffed up, and it ran away miaowing. Su Lingyue didn’t let it go, and started miaowing all over the house, imitating her normal way of calling.
Ji Zhiyi came out of the bathroom. When she heard the continuous sounds of cats miaowing from outside, the tone was light and coquettish, it didn't sound like the little wild cat. She walked out of the room, and into the kitchen. She came face to face with Su Lingyue who had just poked her head out from under the table.
Su Lingyue looked at her.
She blinked.
"Meow~"
Ji Zhiyi's heart thumped, her body was numb. Su Lingyue, seeing that she didn't react, stood up. The little wild cat wanted to play tag with Su Lingyue. Seeing that Su Lingyue was standing still, it wasn't happy. It stretched out its paw and tugged at Su Lingyue’s pants.
Su Lingyue lowered her head and said: "If you pull my pants any more they’ll fall down."
Ji Zhiyi: ...
She couldn't imagine that scene. She asked Su Lingyue: "Did you drink too much?"
Su Lingyue was a bit drunk. She was doing things that she would have never done in the past. She only realized after she had said the words. Luckily, Ji Zhiyi had given her a way out. She obediently nodded: "A little."
Ji Zhiyi said: "Then, go take a shower and rest early?"
Su Lingyue gave an "oh" and turned around, pretending to be calm.
The moment she turned her head, her face contorted into a bitter expression.
Ji Zhiyi shook her head as she watched her quickly leave. She sat on the sofa. Seeing that Su Lingyue was no longer playing with it, the little wild cat circled around Ji Zhiyi, hugging her leg and using her paws to push. Ji Zhiyi lowered her head, grabbed it by the scruff of its neck, and put it on the sofa. She saw that her phone screen was lit up.
It was a message from Ji Zhisi.
She had called her that evening, and said that Jiang Yunlu’s condition had improved. This was really a good thing. Ji Zhisi had been happily asking her on the phone: "Sis, do you think Yunlu-jie will wake up?"
"I just came a few days ago, and we've already gotten this good news. Godmother said that I’ve brought Yunlu-jie good luck."
Ji Zhiyi’s mood had also relaxed a lot.
If she really woke up.
Then, Jiang Ya wouldn't be so obsessive, right?
So, she had asked Ji Zhisi to always pay attention to Jiang Yunlu's condition. She had to call her immediately if there was any news.
Ji Zhisi sent a photo of Jiang Yunlu lying in bed. She was sleeping quietly. Jiang Ya’s care for Jiang Yunlu was meticulous to the point of every single strand of hair. Every year, the amount of money she spent at the hospital was a lot, and she didn't care. Even if Jiang Yunlu was sleeping like this, she still wanted to protect her.
If she really woke up.
How happy would Jiang Ya be?
Ji Zhiyi replied to the message, put down her phone, and turned her head to look at Su Lingyue’s room. Time passed by, and when she was about to fall asleep, she heard Su Lingyue walking out of her room in her slippers.
Seeing her still in the living room, Su Lingyue said: "You haven’t gone back to your room to sleep?"
She should go back to her room and rest.
But Ji Zhiyi didn’t want to.
She asked Su Lingyue: "Are you sober now?"
Su Lingyue didn't want to admit that she was the one who had been messing around with the cat, so she was silent for a few seconds and said: "I'm still a bit dizzy."
Ji Zhiyi moved over on the sofa, and when she saw that, Su Lingyue sat down.
The two of them were sitting close to each other, and neither of them spoke. The atmosphere was suddenly a little awkward.
Even the little wild cat wasn't active, and was instead lying on the coffee table, staring at them.
The air became quiet.
Ji Zhiyi saw the remote control on the coffee table, and asked: "Do you want to watch TV?"
"Sure." Su Lingyue thought, it was the weekend tomorrow, so it was okay to rest later. She said: "Let's watch a movie?"
Ji Zhiyi nodded, turned on the TV, and passed the remote control to Su Lingyue, and said: "What do you want to watch?"
Su Lingyue said, "Let's watch a horror movie."
She immediately searched online for the highest rated horror movie recently. After the search results appeared, she turned it on, and the sound effects filled the living room. Ji Zhiyi turned off the lights. The light on the screen gradually became dark, turning dark grey. A hand suddenly reached out.
Su Lingyue turned her head, and asked Ji Zhiyi: "Are you afraid?"
Ji Zhiyi said, "I'm not scared, why?"
Su Lingyue said softly: "I'm a little scared, can you move over a bit?"
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